Celtic Chess

Introduction    7
The New Apocalypse     14
William Blake, Chosen Chief of 
An Uileach Druidh Braithreachas     20
Yeats and Buddhism    25
Yeats the Sceptic and Rebel    27
“By the Way”     27
W. B. Yeats and Tarot    29
An Island All Castle    32
The Four Great Cities of Falias, 
Gorias, Murias, and Find(r)ias      35
The Four Talismans     39
From the Homeric Hymn to Apollo    43
Visions of Old Irish Mythology    45
The lost Gull Stones    51
Grimoire of the Entangled Thicket    58
The Riddles of Hanes Taliesin    58
Yeats Vision of the 13th Cone, 
Holiness beyond God    61
The Secret Rose    67
Silver Wheel and Spiral Castles    72
“Wood-Sense” 
or the magickal game of Fidchell    75
Combinatorial Trees    82
Worship of the Old Deity by Means of the Ritual Tree Calendar    85
The Ten Nuts of the Hazel Tree 
in the Four Worlds    104
Primeval Benben, Mount Meru, Omphalos, Zion and Royal Tara    105
Living Chess    108
Peredur and the Castle of Wonders    108
King Arthur and the flying Chessboard 
of Guynebans the mage    109
Chess Moralities    110
Brannamh, the Irish “game of life”    112
The Game of the Gospel    113
Vision of the Four Castles 
and Yeats’s Celtic Twilight    115
Gods of the Earth    119
The Black Tower    119
Yeats’s The Evocations of the Cromlecs (undated MS).185     122
Construction of the Cromlec Boards    127
Phantasmagoria of the Player-Heroes    130
Five & Twenty Symbols of the Passive Elements    131
The Sixteen Gatehouses    134
The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers    135
Celtic Chessboards allotted to 
16 Figures of Geomancy    137
Celtic Chess Pieces    138
“Celtic Vision” Explorations Vision I.     142
THE THREE BRIDGITS     150
OGMA     152
ETAINE     153
LUG(H)    154
DAGDA      155
NUADDA     155
BOVE DERG     156
LUR (or Lir)      156
The Children of Lir    157
DANU    157
The Evocation of MIDIR    158
Of ELATHAN    160
Dance of the Giants    163
Yeats, Controversy and Politics    165
Automation of Association    169
The Final Prophetic Figure from Paracelsus    172
Endnotes    173